Rendering for Micah Lexier’s Half K, view from southwest
Rendering for Micah Lexier’s Half K, view from southwest
Rendering for Micah Lexier’s Half K, view from southwest
On June 5, the Torode Group of Companies announced Micah Lexier as the winner of its $1-million Arriva Public Art Competition in Calgary. Lexier’s project, Half K, was selected from an international invitational list of art proposals. It features a 500-metre-long drawing that encompasses a heritage schoolhouse on the site of a new Torode commercial and residential development in Calgary’s Victoria Park area.
Lexier, the well-known Toronto-based conceptual artist and sculptor, has produced a dozen public art commissions in recent years. He is represented in Calgary by Trépanier Baer and in Toronto by Birch Libralato. Group president John Torode, a noted Calgary art patron, has a history of linking art and business ventures. He said, “It is not about just supporting the arts, it is about incorporating art in everything we do.”